Happy Weekend + Links I Love

Happy weekend friends. What are your weekend plans? I’ll be recuperating after yesterday evening’s intense Allegro and Sculpt class at The Extension Room. It’s becoming my favourite way to kick off the weekend. I’ve got a stack of winter reads to get started on this weekend (more on that below.)

Have a wonderful weekend! As always, here are the links I’m loving this week…

+ More Than an ‘Other’. “While my mixed heritage may have created a grey area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence, I have come to embrace that. To say who I am, to share where I’m from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident mixed-race woman. That when asked to choose my ethnicity in a questionnaire as in my seventh grade class, or these days to check ‘Other’, I simply say: ‘Sorry, world, this is not Lost and I am not one of The Others. I am enough exactly as I am.’”

+ I absolutely love A Cup of Jo’s My Beauty Uniform series. This week, Caroline interviewed ABT ballerina Courtney Lavine. I can’t wait to try her trick for achieving the perfect ballet bun: “instead of using hair elastics — which break your hair because they’re tight — I cut off the top of a thigh high and pull my hair back with that.” Genius.